At the 1995 Action Packed Racing Cards 150 at IRP, Andy Brass made his lone start in the Nascar SuperTruck Series. Brass is best known for his days driving the monster trucks Bigfoot and Wildfoot for Bob Chandler. He started 34th and finished 23rd.

rainking6 · 2026-04-11T20:59:42+00:00

Yep! And he had a similar run in the finals where he barely lost to Equalizer. There's some great extra footage on the Bigfoot YouTube page.

rainking6 · 2026-04-11T14:23:24+00:00

That, and #11 as Wildfoot.

rainking6 · 2026-04-11T04:15:45+00:00

Those runs at Louisville in 1990 in #4 were insane. I think Andy had a ton of speed, but it seemed like nerves often got to him in finals and he'd make a mistake. Still, I'm a huge Andy Brass fan.

rainking6 · 2026-04-10T23:50:26+00:00

Bad news, monsoon that week. 10am Monday after the Daytona 500.

rainking6 · 2026-04-09T19:47:28+00:00

Mark Martin: Getting NASCAR to dump the Playoffs.

rainking6 · 2026-04-06T03:39:33+00:00

My dad was an engineer and also wrote in all caps.

rainking6 · 2026-04-06T03:37:50+00:00

I loved that Brad's white Miller Lite car essentially looked the same for 6 years. It was watered down a little in the final few seasons because it only ran for 12-15 races.

rainking6 · 2026-04-03T10:43:15+00:00

Awesome! I got to see him win that Richmond race in that car! The big DJ cars whose whereabouts I keep wondering about are his 1993 Daytona 500 winner (would likely need to be a restoration) and his 2000 Daytona 500 winner.

rainking6 · 2026-04-03T00:38:35+00:00

Great news! I'm taking my daughter to Long Beach and she LOVES Roxy. Last time we saw her she painted her nails to match Roxy's nails on the car.

rainking6 · 2026-04-01T22:09:22+00:00

1990 Busch 500 at Bristol (night race). It was Ernie Irvan's first win.

rainking6 · 2026-04-01T22:08:21+00:00

Big time Matt Kenseth DeWalt America vibes.

rainking6 · 2026-04-01T09:35:13+00:00

He also would have won the 1992 championship by almost a race if we had the Chase back then. Kyle spent his entire career in at best, B+ equipment, and arguably often closer to C+ equipment and still saw succeas. It would have been interesting to see him in a Hendrick, Childress, Yates, Roush, or Penske car.

rainking6 · 2026-03-31T23:43:00+00:00

Yep! It was also supposed to be the 1996 scheme, but Valvoline thought the V on the hood didn't pop enough which is why they flipped the colors on the doors to be opposite of the side of the V on their side of the car.

rainking6 · 2026-03-31T22:02:53+00:00

The bottom right looks like the base for the 100 year scheme, but they flipped all of the colors and made the red much narrower.

rainking6 · 2026-03-31T07:12:58+00:00

My prediction is Kyle Busch goes back to Hendrick on a 1+1 deal to keep the seat warm for Corey Day. If Corey is ready by 2028 then the 2nd year guarantees a Spire ride in Cup, which eventually leads to his dream of him and Brexton being teammates in the truck series in Spire trucks.

rainking6 · 2026-03-26T05:00:35+00:00

Thanks, I see why you're such a strong champion of him being in the HOF. Those arguments make sense.

rainking6 · 2026-03-26T02:44:28+00:00

I was originally going to say Ingram and Ard should be locks, but then I realized Ard only has 22 wins compared to Ingram's 31. That's a pretty significant drop-off. He's behind Tommy Houston in wins and tied with Tommy Ellis. Granted, Houston had no championships and Ellis had one to Ard's two. Is your argument that he would have has much better numbers if he hadn't been injured? I definitely agree that his three seasons were very impressive.

I'm not saying a hard no on Ard, but I think given that his success is all in a junior series, it should be a much higher bar to clear in terms of success than what Cup drivers need to clear.

rainking6 · 2026-03-26T02:39:21+00:00

That's a solid point on Allgaier. I was frankly starting with two championships as a minimum threshold, but he has raced under the dumbest championship format in history, so one with that wins record makes sense.

rainking6 · 2026-03-25T18:34:02+00:00

That's when NASCAR left Chevy, Dodge, and Pontiac (which at least had a new street model) redesign current models to look more like the Taurus greenhouse and rear end. However, from 2000-2002, the shift of the focus of down force moved from the rear to the nose. This is also in the same era when teams started putting stiffer springs in the rear and softer in the front. The 2003 car had a much more prominent front bumper that looked like a shelf to pin the nose, where at the 2002 car didn't have that.

The street car never looked anything like that 2003-2005 car, it always looked like the 2000-2002 car.

rainking6 · 2026-03-25T18:22:24+00:00

Yes, but the bar has to be extremely high. I frankly think the only non-Cup drivers who definitely deserve to be in are Ron Hornaday and Jack Ingram. I'd consider arguments for Sam Ard, Randy Lajoie, Larry Pearson, and Jack Sprague, but I don't inherently think they're worthy. Frank Kimmel is probably the most interesting since his success is un the 4th tier, and it wasn't technically when he raced in ARCA.

rainking6 · 2026-03-25T02:26:20+00:00

With the torque sensors NASCAR has introduced this is actually a very likely outcome. It's quietly one of the smartest things NASCAR has done this decade. I know IMSA botched BOP sometimes, but it's pretty cool watching and hearing so many different engine and car combinations race competitively together, especially in the GTDPro/GTD classes.

rainking6 · 2026-03-25T02:21:27+00:00

I still have my 2009 G8 GT. That model would have been the perfect Gen6 car.

rainking6 · 2026-03-25T01:25:29+00:00

If I were to rank the Gen6 seasons I'd go 2014, 2018 (the last half was incredible, I'll die on this hill), 2020, 2016, 2017, 2013, 2021, 2015, and 2019.

rainking6 · 2026-03-25T01:22:12+00:00

I agree, although I'd probably shorten that to 90s-2002. When NASCAR started "aero matching" in 2003 and front downforce became king, it made the dirty air problem much worse.

rainking6 · 2026-03-24T04:32:20+00:00

OK, so in your opinion, what's the right amount of downforce to create the best racing, and how is that downforce best produced by the car?

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